Posted on 08/03/2005 7:10:46 AM PDT by summer
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- More dieters are ditching carb counts and biting into baguettes with gusto these days. ...
This week's bankruptcy filing by the late Dr. Robert C. Atkins' old company provide fresh evidence of the low-carb diet's demise, a downward spiral that began early last year. But no single new diet has filled the void.
Observers say the only sure thing -- given the boom-and-bust nature of weight-loss trends -- is that something will pop up eventually.
''There isn't one single strong contender,'' said Anne M. Russell, editor-in-chief of Shape magazine. ''If you look at what the single largest trend is, it's weight gain.''
Chapter 11 filings by Atkins Nutritionals Inc. on Monday came about a year and a half after books like ''The Atkins Essentials'' rode the best seller charts, bread makers were back on their heels and Burger King introduced a Whopper without a bun.
But Atkins has been in decline since February 2004, said Harry Balzer, a food industry analyst at market researcher NPD Group. Balzer claims Atkins was one of those demanding diets that simply ran its course, going from fad to fade like so many others before it, including the Scarsdale and the cabbage soup diets.
How far and how fast did Atkins fall? By September 2004, surplus low-carb products were being shipped to food banks in Appalachia....
Ruth Kava, director of nutrition for the American Council on Science and Health, figures it might be something like a high-protein diet.
''Somebody will come up with something new,'' she said. ''There's a lot of creativity out there in Diet World."
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Government dietary guidelines: mypyramid.com
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C'mon, you have to admit it was funny! The point is that any two words can be searched for; the number of hits proves nothing. Searching for "candle" and "truck" returns 999,000 hits.
Yeah, but what does that prove? Some dancing gay men are fat, you know.
Carolyn
Not true. There's good science behind the diet. And the diet works when adhered to. That's the hard part.
The diet has nothing to do with the failure of the Adkins company.
Additionally, I've subscribed to Atkins and South Beach. I made significant gains in weight loss, but after while you lose some things that carbohydrates give you.
I've never been an "enriched" anything advocate. I eat whole grains and tons of vegetables. I have a healthy appetite for red meat *gasps from the crowd* and fish. I read and study every new avenue for weight loss available. Four years in college, many hours of sweat and tears, and I am a healthy, albeit heavy, man. I run a 10 minute mile. I bench press 215.
All I'm saying is that the American society, in general, is a society of extremes, and it is automatically assumed that a new "diet" is going to be the magic pill that we've all been waiting for. I look to our ancestors to see how they lived, and they were forced to actually go outside and move around. Sendentary lifestyle is what keeps us fat. All I'm saying is put down the pork rinds and bacon, get your tubby ass off the couch (I can say this, I weigh in at 275) and go outside. It doesn't cost a dime to walk a mile down the street. Mentality must change to downsize our waistlines!
Check out lowcarbfriends.com for some really good recipes.
Statistically speaking, Atkin's dieters are more likely to ride Harley-Davidson motorcycles and they prefer to buy their dieting food at WalMart...
C'mon, you have to admit it was funny! The point is that any two words can be searched for; the number of hits proves nothing. Searching for "candle" and "truck" returns 999,000 hits.
Results 1 - 10 of about 7,560 for sully and smartass. (0.44 seconds)
Now that's funny!
I believe the diet works, I just don't believe one necessarily needs to follow some convoluted diet to lose weight.
Yeah, it "damaged" 130+ pounds of fat off of mine.
Decaf coffee! WTF! Decaf is for schoolgirls.
I like the Venti Iced Coffee from Starbucks (with a redeye). My wife tried a sip once and made such a face. I still laugh thinking about it.
Chocolate is allowed on Atkins. Remember chocolate comes from a bean therefore it's a vegetable. ;)
"Any diet that doesn't allow satisfying amounts of wine or beer is doomed to failure."
http://www.drinkbeergetthindiet.com
http://www.lcbartender.com
No matter what one thinks of a low-carb diet, eliminating as much refined sugars, corn starch, and corn syrup out of your diet as you can will do anyone a world of good.
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